Jolanda

Jolanda

Day 28, Widnes – Carrington (Manchester)

Weather: 🌤️☀️🌤️☀️🌤️Picnic: 🥪🥪🥪(3 out of 5, first picnic with fresh food, nice company, but need to work on our location!)Track: 🇬🇧🇬🇧 (2 out of 5, sometimes confusingly signposted trail with a lot of straight old railway line along spring forest…

Day 27, Liverpool – Widnes

Weather: 🌤️☀️🌤️☀️🌤️Breakfast: 🥪🥪🥪🥪🥪 (5 out of 5, french toast and eggs Benedict heaven!)Track: 🇬🇧🇬🇧 (2 out of 5, not to well signposted out of the city, and overall not the most inspiring trail. some parts were really nice though!)Campsite: ⛺⛺⛺…

Zeroday 6, Liverpool

We slept in today, and tidied up our gear explosion in the room before going out…😅 We have a great breakfast at Moose café, where Mark has such a hard time choosing that he has the waitress pick her favorite…

Zeroday 5, Dublin – Liverpool

3 Special mentions: – The train manager on the Holyhead – Chester train, for his understanding and kindness. – Dan, the priest we met at the Liverpool train station, who gave us a welcoming feeling in England!– Our hiking barista…

Day 26, Dublin Mountain – Dublin

Weather: ☁️🌧️🌈🌤️🌈🌧️🌈🌤️ 2nd & 3rd breakfast: 🥪🥪🥪🥪🥪 (5 out of 5, coffee and sausage roll/ croissant first and at second stop a salmon bagel!) Track: ☘️☘️☘️☘️ (4 out of 5, enjoyable walk along the river into the city, so much…

Day 25, Powerscourt waterfall – Dublin

Weather: ☀️🌤️🌤️☁️🌧️Picnic: 🌯🌯🌯 (3 out of 5, nice grassy spot with sunshine to dry out the tent, still no special treats..)Track: ☘️☘️☘️☘️☘️ (5 out of 5, cool and pretty, enjoyable walk, well maintained tracks, surprisingly ‘wild’ next to the city)Memorable:…

Day 24, Glendalough – Powerscourt waterfall

Weather: ☁️🌤️☁️🌧️🌈 🌤️Picnic: 🌯🌯🌯 (3 out of 5, nice grassy, sheltered spot with some sunshine, no special treats though..)Track: ☘️☘️☘️☘️☘️ (5 out of 5, cool and pretty, well maintained tracks, amazing views, great summary of our hike in Ireland in…

Day 23, Mucklagh hut – Glendalough

Weather: 🌫️ ☁️☁️🌤️☁️Lunch: 🍳🍳🥯🥯2nd breakfast + elevensies in Glenmalure lodgeTrack: ☘️☘️☘️☘️☘️ (5 out of 5, nice tracks, amazing views, lovely forest, a lake and an old monastery!)Irish wisdom of the day: Coffee is good, coffee and whiskey is betterDiner: 🍲🍲🍲🍲🍲…

Day 22, Tinahely – Mucklagh hut

Weather: 🌤️🌤️☁️☁️☁️Picnic: 🌯🌯🌯 (3 out of 5, reasonable spot, slightly sunny, lunch with wraps and bananas!)Track: ☘️☘️☘️☘️ (4 out of 5, nice tracks and roads, beautiful views, lovely forest and a hut at the end!)Reward of the day: 🍺🔥 finding…